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This is a terrible and horrible place located in Mexico. "La Isla de la Myuneka" - is the name of Spanish origin means the Island of dolls.





But here you will not find cute puppet workshops, well-groomed and beautiful dolls lined up neatly or museums. On this island, there are only hundreds of dirty broken and mutilated dolls, or rather what was left of them. They are fastened with wire to the trees, hung his head, arm or leg. Although many of them do not have enough of these very hands, feet, head ... usually absent in the majority of clothes and hair.



History Islands Dolls began in 1975, when it abandoned and deserted place visited Don Julian Santana. His boat was loaded with clothes, food and a broken doll. Don Julian Santana was born in 1921. He was no different from the rest of the inhabitants of the town of La Asuncion, but what was pious and likes to drink an extra cup of strong drink. One day Don Julian Santana suddenly started to collect dolls. Since the new money he did not have, Julian collecting old dolls thrown in the trash.



He tried to discover them in piles of garbage and brought home. Don Julian is not disdain, and quite broken toys, it does not matter if you have a doll arm, leg and so on. He collected dolls without sleep and rest.



In the campaign for the dolls Don Julian dragged behind an old barrel on wheels, which have been found and collected toys. Day and night he scoured the city, like a mad rummaging in bins and garbage cans, occasionally allowing himself to rest. When the barrel was filled to the brim, he drove her home, unloaded dolls and went on a new quest.



Later, in 1975, without any explanation to the families and friends of Don Julian he left home in La Asuncion, leaving his wife and sailed to a deserted island on a boat. Here he built a kind of huts, fished, gathered fruit. His puppet Don Julian Santana hung on the trees growing on the island.
According to legend, the island lives the soul girls utopshey in the local river. Dolls are toys for the souls of the girls, in addition, they played the role of warding, driving away evil spirits, which, according to Don Julian, there were many. Hermit bartered fruit and vegetables on the dolls from local residents, and to continue to stay on the island.



"Island of the Dolls" produces an incomparable experience. It would seem that Julian did not do anything terrible and awful, he did not pick out dolls eyes were not torn and not to soil his clothes, not disfigured them, he simply collected and hung the old useless toys. But until now, the collection of Don Julian Santana makes a terrible impression on the visiting tourists. And the puppets themselves are perceived by people as something hostile and fearful. Eye Care dolls like watching guests of the island ...